Section
General Provisions
96.01 Safety requirements
Streets
96.20 Definitions
96.21 Damage and obstruction prohibited
96.22 Permits and bonds
96.23 Street openings
96.24 Emergency openings
96.25 Backfilling
96.26 Utility poles
96.27 Maintenance of installations in streets
96.28 Curb cuts
96.29 Removal of encroachment
96.30 Temporary street closings
96.31 Clearing ice and snow; permit required to deposit snow in street
96.32 House moving; permit required
96.33 Reserved
96.34 Limited residential improvements to public right-of-way
Sidewalks
96.45 Definitions
96.46 Sidewalk obstructions
96.47 Pedestrian passage
96.48 Specifications and permits
96.49 Line and grade stakes
96.50 Sidewalk specifications
96.51 Permit revocation
96.52 Ordering construction
96.53 Construction by city
96.54 Sidewalk maintenance
96.55 Sidewalk repair
96.56 Sidewalks to be cleared of snow and ice; clearance districts
96.99 Penalty
GENERAL PROVISIONS
(A) Safeguards. All openings, excavations and obstructions shall be properly and substantially barricaded and railed off, and at night shall be provided with approved warning lights. Warning lights perpendicular to the flow of traffic shall not be more than three feet apart, and parallel to the flow of traffic not over 15 feet apart.
(B) Shoring excavations. All openings and excavations shall be properly and substantially sheeted and braced as a safeguard to workers and to prevent cave-ins or washouts which would tend to injure the thoroughfare or sub-surface structure of the street.
Penalty, see § 96.99
STREETS
For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
STREET. All of the land lying between property lines on either side of all streets, alleys and boulevards in the city, and includes lawn extensions and sidewalks and the area reserved therefor where the same are not yet constructed.
SUPERINTENDENT. The City Manager or his or her designee.
(A) No person shall make any excavation in or cause any damage to any street in the city except under the conditions and in the manner permitted in this chapter.
(B) No person shall place any article, thing or obstruction in any street, except under the conditions and in the manner permitted in this chapter, but this provision shall not be deemed to prohibit the temporary obstructions as may be incidental to the expeditious movement of articles and things to and from abutting premises, nor to the lawful parking of vehicles within the part of the street reserved for vehicular traffic, nor to obstructions permitted under §§ 96.45 et seq.
Penalty, see § 96.99
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